When Shoeshine started as a cadet journalist, a fug of cigarette smoke would hover in the newsroom air as journos lit one off the butt of their last while they typed furiously away.
How times change. Shoeshine gave up smoking nearly 30 years ago using will power and the odd toke on another
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